BRIEF: Euro 2012 match broke Ukraine television viewership record

KIEV — Ukraine's final Euro 2012 group match against England set a sports television viewership record in the former Soviet republic, the newspaper Kommersant reported on Friday.

Tuesday's game in Donetsk was watched by one in four Ukrainian households nationwide, and by 60 per cent of people living in large towns and cities, the article said, citing data compiled by the Media Group of Ukraine (MGU) survey company.

Ukraine lost the game 1-0 to be eliminated from the competition.

The viewership numbers broke a record set in 2006 when some 30 per cent of Ukrainians living in large towns and cities tuned in to the 3-0 World Cup quarter-final defeat against later champions Italy, the MGU survey said.